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SINCE writing the notice of Mr. le Souef's book on Australian wild life in NATURE for October 24 (vol. lxxvi., P. 635), I have been making inquiries as to the existence in collections of any examples of platypus egg definitely known to have been taken from the nest after extrusion. It has been suggested to me that Mr. Caldwell and Dr. Semon might possess such specimens. The former gentleman told me, however, some years ago that he never found an extruded specimen, and I learn from Dr. Semon that he was equally unsuccessful in this respect. In his letter he writes that “I have never found extruded eggs of Orhithorhyhchus, but only intra-uteririe specimens. To obtain the former, it would be necessary to open a very large number of burrows.”
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THE REVIEWER The Eggs of the Platypus. Nature 77, 80 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077080c0
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